Venus stations Direct on January 29, 2022. Our Love Goddess stops, takes a deep breath, and turns toward the future after revisiting chunks of the past since her retrograde began on December 19, 2021.
It’s time to take all we have learned about how we regard love in its many manifestations in our lives and move forward. We have “graduated” from this intensive, soul-searching process.
Karmic Themes shift on January 18 as we move into the new Nodal Axis of Grounded Pleasures Taurus/North Node and Deep Waters Scorpio/South Node. We leave the previous influence of Gemini Dreams/North Node opposing Sagittarius Frustrations/South Node and enter this earthier and emotionally complex time.
The Lunar Nodes identify the two points where the Inner You Moon crosses the Ecliptic (the path of the Earth around the Sun) as it orbits the Earth. It’s a mathematical, astronomy related thing. These points are located in astrological signs, just like planets.
Every 18 months or so the Lunar Nodes move into a new pairing of opposite signs, and they move retrograde (backward)! So they represent our soul evolution across time, from past lives and birth (South Node) to death and our future lives (North Node). Each pairing defines a Karmic Theme that persists as a foundational contribution to our overall experience for the duration.
What is your Heart Focus for this Wolf Full Moon? On January 17, 2022 at 3:48 pm Pacific Time, Inner You Moon in Here’s A Hug Cancer shines bright opposite Outer You Sun in Get To Work Capricorn. Your desire to nest struggles against your need to achieve, while an underlying theme of take apart plays in the background.
Blame Dark Lord of Transformation Pluto for pointing out the shadow side of how you participate in the world and your connections with others. He conjuncts (aligns) with the Sun and initiates another cycle of personal death/rebirth.
And that also means he opposes that glorious Wolf Full Moon! Your heart focus might turn into extreme emotionality. Ego could overpower wisdom and cause confusion.
If there were ever a time for you to make friends with your Coyote Mind, Mercury Retrograde 2022 is it! Cliff edges of Illusions, communication challenges, and subtle self sabotage present pitfalls we don’t have to fall into! However, dangling could occur…
We moved into the Coyote Mind pre-shadow zone December 29. Whatever has been front and center since then can be a map of possible review and redo over the next three weeks, January 14 to Feb 3.